Sensuous Spirituality: Out from Fundamentalism

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Summary: I wish I hadn't bought this book, but I'm glad I did!
Review: Sensuous Spirituality is a painful read: certainly not worth reading for pleasure but essential for understanding where feminist Christianity is heading. Ms Mollenkott is a very honest writer who is not afraid of including personal memoir in what is essentially an academic's journey away from her past. This woman can rationalise anything with Bible scriptures. She tears down the foundations of religious Christianity and erects new ones of her own making. Everything is justified with scripture to her complete satisfaction. She wrests scripture with the best of them. Sin is no more, in her universe. Perversion is replaced with anything goes and her goddess looks on with benignity. She cleverly melds the worst of new age thought and mysticism with the gospel of Jesus Christ and airily rewrites his teachings to conform to her worldview. I had to force myself to take up her book and could only bear to read it in very small doses; it is pure poison to the faith of one who follows Jesus and loves the Bible as God's holy word. As soon as I am sure that I understand her beliefs I shall take her book and burn it on the compost heap for the abomination that it is. Don't read this book unless you also worship the goddesses of this world.